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Gambling in young adolescents

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A questionnaire was used to investigate gambling in British adolescents. Responses from fifty 13- to 14-year-olds were analyzed. Gambling was found to be very pervasive (90% of subjects reported at least some gambling activity). Males gambled more than females, both in absolute terms and as a proportion of income. Income was found to have some influence on gambling behavior, but the effects of intelligence and social class were nonsignificant. Slot machines were the commonest form of gambling in both sexes.

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  1. Department of Psychology, Washington Singer Laboratories, University of Exeter, EX4 4QG, Exeter, England

    Susan G. Ide-Smith & Stephen E. G. Lea

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The willing cooperation of the teacher and students concerned is gratefully acknowledged. This paper is based on a report submitted by the first author in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the BSc degree at the University of Exeter. Some of the data were presented to the conference of the British Psychological Society Developmental Section, held in Exeter in September 1986, and to the colloquium of the International Association for Research in Economic Psychology, held at Aarhus, Denmark, in September 1987.

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Ide-Smith, S.G., Lea, S.E.G. Gambling in young adolescents. J Gambling Stud 4, 110–118 (1988). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01020107

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